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Coach Dabo Swinney’s national runnerup Tigers, who received seven first place votes, were one of two ACC teams ranked in the top four and one of four league teams overall in the preseason poll… Read More »

There’s something to be said for a little confidence, especially when you’re not in a position of having to back it up. So it’s admirable that now-former North Carolina quarterback Marquise Williams would go on the record predicting big things for the Tar Heels this fall while publicly pumping up his successor Mitch Trubisky. “He’s taking us to the ACC Championship,” Williams said of Trubisky on the statewide David Glenn Show radio program last week. “And we’ll be beating Clemson… Read More »

Clemson’s Dabo Swinney edged out North Carolina’s Larry Fedora for the ACC’s Coach of the Year award while Pittsburgh players swept the honors for both the league’s offensive and defensive Rookie of the Year. Swinney, who has led the Tigers to a 12-0 record and the No. 1 national ranking, received 27 of the 50 votes cast by members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association. Fedora, whose team has won 11 straight and its first official Coastal Division championship… Read More »

Duke’s David Cutcliffe and Pittsburgh’s Pat Narduzzi, whose surprise teams are currently tied for the ACC’s Coastal Division lead, are among the four league coaches on the midseason watch list for the Paul “Bear” Bryant Award symbolic as the national college football Coach of the Year.… Read More »

Instead of the attention being focused on the teams and star players with familiar names such as DeShaun, Jacoby and Jeremy, at least one eye on Saturday will be focused out to sea on an unwanted interloper known as Joaquin.… Read More »